Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
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Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition

  1. 473 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition

About this book

Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by many outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include:

• social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital
• disability
• dying and "the right to die"
• health disparities
• the growing influence of the pharmaceutical industry
• the Internet
• evidence-based medicine and quality of care
• health social movements
• genetics
• religion, spirituality, and health

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Information

Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780826517210
9780826517203
eBook ISBN
9780826517227
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Ethics in Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface to the Sixth Edition
  5. Part I. Social Contexts and Health Disparities
  6. Part II. Health Trajectories and Experiences
  7. Part III. Health-Care Organization, Delivery, and Impact
  8. Part IV. Crosscutting Issues
  9. Contributors
  10. Index

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